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France plans internet tax of 5.5 cents per gigabyte (www.heise.de)
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[–] 00000@reddthat.com 110 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

This was fake news the first 900 times it was posted, and still is. France doesn't "plan" this. 10 fringe people with no power or influence suggested it. Everyone has already rejected it.

Again, here is the real story behind the sensationalized headlines https://tech-insider.org/french-lawmakers-per-gigabyte-internet-traffic-tax-11-10-vote-2026/

Headlines called it an approval, and technically it was. But the vote covered one amendment during the first reading of the 2027 finance bill, only 35 of the Assembly’s 577 deputies took part, and the government opposed it. Nothing here is law.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Thank you for the fact check. Lemmy has a serious issue with bogus sensationalized headlines with no context offered.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

This has been standard operational procedure for some other governments around the world: transpire that some outlandish law is being considered, wait for the wave of indignation, get what you wanted to regulate in the first place approved while the people wave their pitchforks. Rinse and repeat.